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A life unlived through slow surrender

Freedom isn’t comfort — it’s struggle, chosen, lived, and earned.

May 6, 2025

7 min read

Flickers of Greatness

Greatness cannot be sustained.

December 29, 2024

4 min read

Dreams were meant to be crushed

Suspend your disbelief

July 4, 2024

3 min read

Improvement ≠ Happiness

What happens when our identity and fulfillment rests solely on becoming better?

February 12, 2022

5 min read

Fear is the mind killer

April 9, 2024

4 min read

Prove that the diagonals of Pascal's triangle sum to the Fibonacci sequence

A neat little proof

April 8, 2023

4 min read

Multiplicative time

Pushing through your problems, most of the time, isn’t the best solution

February 8, 2023

4 min read

What do beaches, image compression, and singers have in common?

December 16, 2021

9 min read

Staircases

Nobody knows what they are doing

December 5, 2021

3 min read

Excuses aren't all bad

Contrary to common belief

November 27, 2021

4 min read

Am I qualified to teach anything?

Probably not, but I’m going to anyways. Brace for impact

November 20, 2021

4 min read

My favorite books of 2021

November 13, 2021

4 min read

Small and big places

How a large pond can feel not so small

October 30, 2021

3 min read

Lemons

How to be productively unproductive

October 23, 2021

4 min read

Paper is dead, long live paper

What we lose with digital media

October 9, 2021

4 min read

Losing wonder

How the educational system does the complete opposite of what it should do

October 2, 2021

3 min read

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